CMA Keeps Watch Over Superfund Measures.

Chemical Market Reporter, November, 1999 by HESS, GLENN

The association warns against back door exemptions for other industries WITH CONGRESS about to wrap up business for the year, the Chemical Manufacturers Association and other industry trade groups are urging lawmakers to reject last-minute bids by special interests to win exemptions from cleanup liability under the Superfund law.

A compromise Superfund reform bill was expected to reach the House floor before the end of the session, but a continuing disagreement over how to fund cleanups is making a vote unlikely before adjournment. Rep. Bill Archer (R-Tex.), chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, adamantly opposes reinstating excise taxes on chemical feedstocks and petroleum products to pay for Superfund cleanups. The tax...

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